The Jazz Butcher
Lyrics
Girl-Go
Lyrics
Girl-Go
sample: [Tu as vu toutes les étoiles?]"have you seen all the stars?" - the tune is stolen, of course, from All The Stars by The Perfect DisasterI'm my father's own stupid son
Sit watching the T.V. when it's time for me to run
You wrote a song about going to sea
When things got tough you were so kind to me Chorus:Oh, look at her goEverything she used to do was wrong
Won't you look at her go
Won't you look at that girl go
Oh, look at her go
Won't you look at her go
Won't you look at that girl go
The time was too short
And the words were all too long
Everything she used to do was wrong
I never dreamed she'd turn up in her own song Chorus And I've been dreaming
God knows I've been dreaming Chorus Won't you look at her go?
I've just got to watch her go now
Watch her go downtown
[live: What's the point of a suicide note, anyway?]if you want to start adding live variations we'll be here all week...
Found On
Buy These Records
Spooky EP
Thanks for the money. We'll be spending it on weapons and drugs. The first thing that you have to understand about this disc is that it is not an L.P.: it is a single and a radio session nailed together for your amusement.
Cult Of The Basement
If things seemed weird back in February 1989, when we made this baby, the Weird were going shopping on bikes. In a farmhouse in the dead of winter, in personal circumstances too bizarre and complex to relate, we set about making our "commercial suicide" album. For the first time, I felt, we had made an album that really sounded like us. This record does have personality. One of my favourites, this.
Edward's Closet
So you've got a CD player, have you? I've got a headache and an abiding dislike of expensive food crews in dumb baseball hats. I've been in Edward's Closet and he wasnt't in. "That JBC", they mutter at the bus-stop, "turned left at the light a Long Time Ago".
Unconditional
One of the better Creation-era compilations. Canadian release.
Western Family
For loonie completists only, for sure, though, if you listen through the muck, you'll see that we did our bit.
¡Excellent! The Violent Years
Millions of years ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Today the Galileo Space Probe orbits mighty planet Jupiter. The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy first appeared in June 1982 in the back room of the Black Lion in Northampton. They finally drank the bar dry in a small town in in Mallorca on the 20th August 1996
The Jazz Butcher's Free Lunch
"You're not a band. You're a crack team of international restaurant critics" - Curtis E. Johnson
VA: American Pensioners On Ecstasy
Contribution:
Girl-Go
She's On Drugs
Double A sided single for the Australian market.
Brave New Waves Session
The Jazz Butcher’s Brave New Waves session was recorded on June 5th, 1988 in CBC Studio 13 in Montreal. The recording is taken from CBC Archives reels and remastered at Grey Market Mastering in Montreal, by Harris Newman.
Dr Cholmondley Repents: A-sides, B-Sides and Seasides
Four CD box set gathering A-sides, the would-be hits along with B-sides, tangential 12-inch tracks (the C-sides), and an excellent session for Los Angeles radio station KCRW from 1989. Includes over a dozen indie chart hits including ‘Southern Mark Smith’, ‘Girl Go’, ‘The Human Jungle’, ‘16 Years’ plus a host of truly eclectic Butcher tunes from his early Glass recordings through his time at Creation.
Pat Says
The Butcher Says..
Tu as vu toutes les étoiles? The JBC lush out in tribute to the (sadly departed) The Perfect Disaster, featuring a superlative example of the Richard Formby guitar assult. The lead vocal was recorded in the studio garden at one in the morning in mid-January. The reasoning escapes me now. Probably, I had been very bad.
Source:
Unconditional liner notes
Girl-Go is for my friend Phil (ip of Walshingham) Parfitt, singer & writer with The Perfect Disaster and class A-! human being. It is about a number of things, with special emphasis on the popular chord "E". Listen and pass out.
Source:
Spooky liner notes
Live Stats
48 documented performances (click to explore)
1988 |
2 (JBC)
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1989 |
12
4 (Pat Solo) 8 (JBC) |
1990 |
9 (JBC)
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1991 |
3 (JBC)
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1992 |
13 (JBC)
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1993 |
5
3 (Pat Solo) 2 (JBC) |
1994 |
1 (JBC)
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2000 |
1 (JBC)
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2002 |
1 (JBC)
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2021 |
1 (Pat Solo)
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Media
Official Video
Rough studio mix
2 Recorded Live Performances
1989-12-09 Roxy Theatre - Los Angeles, USA West Coast '89 Cassette
1988-06-12 Odd Rock Cafe - Milwaukee, USA One of first performances
Credit: Douglas Buege